Full-time Positions

Mad Scientist & Programming Coordinator

Mad Science is the world’s leading science enrichment provider. Mad Science of the Maritimes offers science-themed parties, special events, workshops, and summer camps as well as at-lunch and after-school programs in more than a hundred elementary schools across New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. We are currently recruiting for the position of Mad Scientist & Programming Coordinator for our Halifax location.

This is a one-year renewable contract, 30-35 hours per week.

The primary duties of this position include, but are not limited to: • Conducting educational and entertaining science presentations before groups of children (ie. making slime, launching rockets, releasing colourful towers of foam twenty feet in the air) • Corresponding with school principals and teachers to set up and coordinate programs• Scheduling and coordinating lessons and instructors in as many as eighty weekly classes in dozens of schools • Recommending new approaches, policies, and procedures to affect continual improvements in efficiency of services performed • Devising and implementing marketing strategies • Clerical workQualification Requirements: • Bachelor's degree and some experience working with children • Strong administrative computer skills required (MS Office Suite, Google Drive) • Ability to multi-task and thrive in a fluctuating work environment • Tact, diplomacy, mature judgment along with creative problem-solving skills • Excellent interpersonal skills and effective verbal and written communication skill • Valid driver’s license and reliable vehicle necessary for daily work related duties and ability to travel throughout the province • Current and Valid Child Abuse Registry Check, Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Persons Sector Check • Bilingualism (French), marketing experience and a science background are not required but will be considered an asset